US 2011/0214104 A1Published application

Functional design creation tool

AssigneeAccenture Global Services Limited

InventorsVibhu S. Sharma, Santonu Sakar, Kunal Verma, Arun Panayappan, Alex Kass

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Abstract

A functional design creation tool generates a functional design diagram for visual presentation on a display. The functional design creation tool extracts contents from a processed requirements specification including one or more processed requirement statements. The functional design creation tool applies one or more glossaries and a set of heuristic rules to the extracted content. Functional design diagram components may be generated by the functional design creation tool based on the application of the glossaries and set of heuristic rules. The functional design tool may generate a functional design diagram based on the functional design diagram components. The functional design diagram may be transmitted to a display.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A functional design creation tool comprising:

a plurality of glossary data sets stored on a memory device;
and
a heuristics data set stored on the memory device, wherein the heuristics data set includes a plurality of heuristic rules;
a functional design creation module executable by a processor to:
receive a processed requirements specification defining functionality of a system, wherein the processed requirements statement identifies at least one entity included in the system;
retrieve the plurality of glossary data sets and the heuristics data set;
generate a plurality of functional design diagram components based on the processed requirement statements, at least one of the plurality of glossary data sets, and the at least one of the plurality of heuristic rules, wherein the plurality of functional design components includes at the least one entity included in the system and at least one relationship associated with the at least one entity;
generate a functional design diagram based on the functional diagram components, wherein the functional design diagram is representative of the system, and wherein the functional design diagram includes at least one diagram element representative of the at least one entity and a relationship indicator representative of the at least one relationship;
and
transmit the functional design diagram to at least one display.

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A computer-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions executable by a processor, the computer-readable medium comprising:

instructions to receive a processed requirements specification describing behavior of a system, wherein the processed requirement specification includes a plurality of processed requirement statements;
instructions to retrieve a plurality of glossary data sets and a heuristics data set from a memory device, wherein the heuristics data set includes at least one heuristic rule;
instructions to generate at least one functional design diagram component based on the processed requirements specification, at least one of the plurality of glossary data sets, and the heuristics data set;
instructions to generate at least one functional design diagram based on the at least one functional design diagram component, the functional design diagram being representative of the system;
and
instructions to transmit the functional design diagram to at least one display.

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A method of generating a functional design diagram on a display, the method comprising:

receiving a requirements specification defining operation of a system;
processing the requirements specification to determine content of the requirements specification;
applying at least one glossary to the processed requirements specification;
applying at least one heuristic rule to the content of the processed requirements specification;
generating at least one functional design diagram based on the application of the at least one heuristic rule to the content of each of the plurality of requirement statements;
generating a functional design diagram based on the at least one functional design diagram component, wherein the functional design diagram is representative of the system;
and
transmitting the functional design diagram to at least one display.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.